Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-11-25
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-"Count that day lost whose low-descend-
Views from thy hands no worthy action done
Count that day lost and gone to smash
When you have taken in no cash.
Two small fires in town lately. Look
out for your gas fires and fues.
The school teachers of Marion twp, have
atruck for higher wages.
The Missionary Convention ofthe Butler
Presbytery, will begin at Petrolia next Sun
day.
E-A.J J. Frank &.Co., sell pure and good
drugs, and compound prescriptions carefully
See card.
Immense quantities :of apples are being
shipped from the stations OF the 5 d A., In
the northwestern part of the county.
BY reference 20 the list of Sherif's sales,
it will be seen that the Odd Fellows lodge of
Millerstown has issued on the property of
the Agricultural Association there.
Mr.. A. L. Robinson has filed his store
with useful articles. many of which are suit
able for Christmas presents. See his caro- IN
another column.
We again remind our ministerial friends.
to whom we send our paper, that We woula
be pleased to have them notify rs OF all
deaths in their vicinity.
Sec card of the Brady House and Restau-
rant-a new enterprise in Butler, with Mr.. !.
w. TAFT as proprietor-in another column.
Some of our exchanges, last week, pub
lished pictures of the Anarchists. and some
that of the Jail in which they were hung,
and we would be pleased to know which was
the most sensible thing to do.
Mr.. JAS 8. Wilson Of Pittsburg, wants to
employ canvassers for new book. See his
card in another place.
A top prop has been patented by Mr..
William z. Moore, of Unionville, Pa. This
invention provides an improved means for Sc
curing the bow iron to the seat iron or top
prop stud. to provide an anti-prop rattler for
carriages and top buggies.
Mr. D. L. Cleelaud's store always looks
pretty at Christmas time. His stock o. holi-
day silverware and jewelry is now ready for
your inspection.
Mr. Alexander Rodgers, of North Wash
ington, this county, and a member OF the
Grm of Rodgers Bros, contractors, fell from
an oil we'll derrick, near Findlay, o., last
Thursday and was killed.
The crowning achievement of cpthalmic
surgery of the present century, as reported 10
the Medical Record, was the transpantatiOn
of rabbits cornea to that of q man, by
which operation Prof Won Hippel restored
sight to an eye, practically blind.
Prof r. J. Lamb. the Organist and
Choir Master of st. Peters Church, gives
music Lessons on ali instruments, also lesso ms
cs~ ord ssrnA ND lat
and organs. See card in another column.
Mr.. - Neigh's large barn near Car
bon Centre was destroyed by fire early last
Monday morning. The flames spread SO ran
idly that the live stock were saved with diff
culty. All his hay, grain and farming i'm
plements were destroyed.
Mr.. Westinghouse, Of air brake fame, is
experimeuting with q steel passenger coach.
no wood Whatever TO be employed in its con.
struction. The ends are to be made oblique
instead of square, in order to prevent teles-
coping in case of collision.
Mr.. j. r. T. Stehle has purchased tire.
mendous stock Of holiday goods, and his
store, known far and wide as the Santa Claus
Headquarters of Butler county-is paradise
for the children at present. A glance at his
local notices in this paper will suggest some
-Pennsylvania has become an empire in
itself, An idea of this is afforded by the re-
port of public school affairs for the year. In
1886 there were in the State 206S3 schools,
.8.795 male teachers and IA, sos female teach.
ers. There were 1904 scholars, and an
average Of 665, ,312 were in attendance.
Last year Pennsylvania produced seven
ty.three million tons of coal, of which thirty
feven millions were anthracite, the total
value thereof being ninety-three millions of
dollars: It was worth more than all the gold
and silver produced in the United States.
About two.thirds of all the coal produced in
this country is produced in Pennsylvania.
Illinois and Ohio are the next most import
ant coal producing States.
IN. w. Ayers & Sons Newspaper Annual
for this year is one of the most complete
works Of its kind in existence and is of value
to the business world ge' orally. besides the
newspaper business, as it gives ccusus statis-
tics and facts found in no other work. There
are now Is, 420 periodicals published in the
United States and Canada. which print over
thirty million copies of each edition. and
this work gives facts regarding them all and
also Of the towns and counties in which they
are published.
Judge Schuyler, of Eastou, has rendered
Z decision on the constitutionality Of the
Brooks high license law. The Judge has de.
cided that the twelfth section Of the law, re-
quiring constables TO visit all places where
liquor is sold monthly, and report all VIOLA
tions, does not apply 10 constables elected be-
fore the pas ,e Of the act. The judge also
holds that as there is no provisions for COM
peneatiop to the constables for the additional
very onerous duties imposed on them, the act
u nconstitutional-E1.
"A dispatch from Millerstown dated last
Saturday says, the family of Frank Rattigan
had narrow escape yesterday afternoon.
Carpenters were At work at his residence on
his farm. near this place, who, while driving
nails, Jared a box of "Rough on Rats" from
ashelf into a bucket of water which stood
directly underneath. Not noticing the acci-
dent, Mr.. Rattigan, wife aud child partook of
the water, vnd in short time all were pros
trated. DR.. Showalter was called about p
N. and again at 4 this morning. Your cor
respondent visited the family this morning
shortly after the arrival of the physician and
found them out of danger.